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Following the successful early bird sale with a limited number of tickets at a special price, we are launching the official pre-sale. Tickets are now available on our website.

After the great success of 2023 and 2025, the association is organising the sauna marathon for the third time in 2026! The date has already been set: 20 and 21 February 2026! Be sure to mark the date in red in your diary now! Advance booking starts soon!

This year, 85 volunteers accepted the invitation to the sauna marathon helpers' party in the Rhysauna. Right at the beginning, the sauna family was welcomed with a small aperitif. The time-honoured beams of the Rhysauna were filled with the aroma of delicious saffron risotto throughout the evening...

The second Saunamarathon Schaffhausen is already history again. We will remember it fondly with all 170 hard-working helpers!

Advance sales for the Sauna Marathon 2025 are closed. Only a few tickets are still available at the box office (on site at check-in at Schaffhauserland Tourismus)! We are looking forward to over 1,000 enthusiastic participants!.

The second sauna marathon is just a few days away. The anticipation is great and the first construction work has already started, with the Rhysauna being enlarged with a tent. Thank you, Alex and his team, for the great work!

There will be a big party on Fronwagplatz to mark the opening of the Sauna Marathon 2025. The legendary Chiesgrueb DJs will be playing hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. The party is also open to non-saunders. Admission is free!

We know him from the sauna marathon in Otepää: Andrus Arras (BBQ Farm) travelled the long 2,150 km from Estonia to Switzerland especially for us to grill his super-fine burger for us on Fronwagplatz. Mmmhhh.Andrus Arras in February 2024 in the Estonian...

Gian-Claudio and his team from Saunawelt Höchenschwand are also taking part in the second Schaffhausen Sauna Marathon. His banya tent will be heated up and the Saunawelt team will spoil the participants with birch branches. Gian-Claudio and...

The Schaffhausen public transport company vbsh is once again a partner of the sauna marathon in 2025. All participants in the sauna marathon will travel by bus free of charge on Saturday, and vbsh is looking forward to seeing lots of passengers in their bathrobes!

Our second video is here! Have fun watching it!

Ruggero has been offering foot massages in the Rhysauna for years. Now he's finally taking part in the 2025 Sauna Marathon!

Glüh-Gin, Glühgina and Gin-los-gut: Zanka's Gewürznote has it all. As in 2023, Zanka's also has its legendary burgers ready for all sauna marathoners!

Bruno Jakob made a video for the sauna marathon on the occasion of our helpers' party on 11 November 2024. And yes: there really is room for that many people in our Rhysauna yurt.

Wow! That was a party. We are overwhelmed by all the positive feedback about the first sauna marathon. What remains are the many good memories and the pictures - only happy faces at the 1st Sauna Marathon. (Melanie Duchene)

On 16 August, Birgit, Manuel, Anita and Zeno provided information about the Schaffhausen Sauna Marathon at the Schaffhauserland Tourism Visitor Centre.Birgit, Manuel, Anita and Zeno provide information about the Sauna MarathonOf course, a sauna was not to be missed -...

Another building block in the successful organisation of the Schaffhausen Sauna Marathon has been laid: We have a logo! The logo of the Schaffhausen Sauna Marathon!

A non-commercial association was founded on 3 April 2023 in the Schaffhausen Rhybadi to organise the Schaffhausen Sauna Marathon. The purpose article of the association's articles of association states: «The purpose of the association is to organise the Schaffhausen...

A delegation from Schaffhausen will also be taking part in the sauna marathon, which will be held in Otepää, Estonia, on 17 and 18 February. 11 people will fly from Schaffhausen to the winter capital of Estonia this weekend to form three teams.